Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Lession of the day: if I catch myself being ready to follow catastrophic shortcuts in my own software's development process, how can I expect my clients to be educated accordingly? Being a part-time founder really puts things in perspective. 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Yes, and I think it has only become more quiet during the past month. 010
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Reposting to reread this myself mainly. I have a high susceptibility to setting things up right from the start. On the other hand, i have run into many blunders that made me start over. I guess it is about learning how to find a balance. 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Board of Canada's latest release, Inferno, has quickly become one of my personal favorites. Instead of drawing the line at simple low-fi analog nostalgia, it uses the audio degradation as a tool for great song writing. Good old IDM mentality. 020
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I am super guilty of this myself, but the Bluesky UX design community has one major difference to the X design community. And that is showcasing design work. This makes X still appear way more vibrant, alive and interesting. 110
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Having AI generated ad copy stuck in my head is as 2026 as it gets. 010
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Had an utterly insane incident today where I added a collaborator on a teamspace on Notion. Since it was a free account I could not remove them (a subscription is needed). They tried removing themselves but removed me instead. result: I lost all access to my private workspace for some reason. 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I just realized that 20 years ago, i would read and watch horror fiction to spike my adrenalin and the news would make me fall asleep. Nowadays, it’s the news that keeps me up at night and i fall asleep to paranormal podcasts. 010
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 15/05/2026When doing methodical work with LLMs according to best practices, you realize how utterly misleading the marketed idea of vibe coding entire apps in a few tries really is. 010
Reposted by Fotis MAndy✌️ @andyhey.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Recruiter: the role is for a Senior UX Designers that’s more than a AI native UI strategist. They need to turbocharge the integration layer, turning powerful AI into intuitive, human-centered, strategic experiences that actually drive business results. Me: So… a normal UX/UI designer. 031
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Would like to take a look, but I would need more context. Feel free to DM me. 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Active and interested in both design and code. Happy to connect. 110
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Super excited to start my first collaboration with my user research-to-development alignment system (which is still a set of python scripts, llm skills, and schemas operated on my end), with a startup. I will try and document my learnings and progress here. #buildinpublic #UX 081
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 12/05/2026If you are anxious about AI taking over your design job, just try to use Claude Design for a few times and see how it obliterates your weekly limits without producing anything particularly useful. 010
Reposted by Fotis MJulie Johnston @juliewithaj.com · 07/05/2026UX design in 2026: I've spent 10x more time in VS Code than Figma in the past month. 251
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Every second post on UX that I come across is about accessibility. Now, it goes without saying that it is a very important aspect of our work as designers. But the frequency of posts makes me think of something more depressing: what if it is also one of the last things we take pride in? Thoughts? 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Perfect is the enemy of the good, and good enough is the enemy of the designer, unfortunately. Appearance is often just an afterthought for people who just want to push out something as fast as possible. I think we designers need to somehow redefine ourselves as problem solvers in this process. 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 03/05/2026One of the things I will definitely not miss about working with LLMs is forgetting which thread i had discussed something in and going around asking, one by one : "is this where we talked about X"? 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 01/05/2026But there is a learning curve here, and most people haven't climbed it yet. The honest question isn't "is this model broken?" It's "am I using it right?" 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 01/05/2026So my point is: don't necessarily hate on the models and the workflows. AI has been overhyped, yes, and the magical thinking it introduces is worth being wary of. 100
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 01/05/2026And this feeds into the short sighted, slightly narcissistic impatient thinking that has become predominant in our era: "If I can't understand this in a few seconds, it is likely a scam". 100
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 01/05/2026AI-powered no-code web application builders are marketed as exactly that : get your custom app with a few prompts. 100
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I think the main culprits are the current marketing messages as well as the contemporary short sighted frenzied thinking that is popular nowadays. 100
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 01/05/2026This is classic Dunning-Kruger-fuelled magical thinking. People are not looking to realistically optimize their work; they want a magic button that replaces significant work and planning they are entirely unaware of. 100
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 01/05/2026When someone is oblivious to the complexities of the actual projects at hand (designing the flows for large applications, writing complete apps correctly), they expect to do this with a few prompts. The LLM goes haywire, and the user gets frustrated. 100
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 01/05/2026As I am getting more acquianted with LLM assisted workflows, it is getting clearer to me how much everything is a matter of expectations. 100
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I realized something has changed just the other day, when i started watching something on YT. After a moment I realized that the title, description and comments were from another video. This would have been unimaginable a few years ago. And it has happened to me twice since then. 020
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I wonder if AIs secretly refer to human content as "bioslop". 010
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Perhaps younger generations believe that we grew up inside their favorite video games. 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I am waiting for AI design tools to enter the design race. Having things appear too dated and then trying to catch up. 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Regardless of whether the carousel feature follows good UX design practices or not, I am a bit skeptical of the amount and scale of the reactions. Looking through the UX Sky thread, it feels like this is a national emergency or something. 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Pretty soon we will start needing “psychologist” skills to handle the alignment between our second brains, AI memories, personas, etc. 030
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Ok, Claude's performance has slowly gone from "what a reliable tool" to "this is profoundly annoying", and finally to "I am genuinely concerned something is very deeply wrong here". All in a very brief time period. 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Setting up my project discovery framework to run a pass on my project discovery framework.. In times like this I wonder if I am veering into mad scientist territory. Time will tell I guess. 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Out of curiosity, what do you use to make the recordings? 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 19/04/2026The profession of the designer has two parts: The active employment, and the portfolio. This should be treated as an emergency fund. If you are not actively maintaining it when you don't need it, you will have an even tougher time when you really do. 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Interacting with the latest consumer AI models feels like being the spouse of a drunk who stumbled into the house and is incessantly apologizing for constantly knocking things over. 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Spot on. But I think there's a general human cognitive bias at work here. Even as a designer, I had to watch the results of many usability tests in order to understand that my "foolproof solutions" were educated guesses at best. Unfortunately, I don't know of any other way to overcome this. 110
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 17/04/2026If there is one established UX convention that I simply don't get it's this: Why does copying and pasting text in most tools carry the source's formatting with it? Which users actually want their documents to end up as a mix of styles? 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 17/04/2026To be frank, this happened again and again even before AI. "New groundbreaking frameworks and approaches" popped up all the time, while being carbon copies of basic ones in other fields, just with replaced terminologies. 010
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Unpopular opinion : The wild deterioration of Claude Opus over the last few weeks is actually a good wakeup call: We can't rely on an external factor (a third party model's constant availability and quality) as a constant for our workflows. We need to invest in our workflows' stability. 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 15/04/2026The only constant in design tools' evolution: There will always be one recurring buggy little detail in the process. 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The amazing thing is: LLMs can help people set up Python scripts to make their LLM usage more precise. So it could be argued that Python is crossing into both sides. 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Design is in a sort of upside down world at the moment, but once you get it, you get it. (at least for a couple of days, until everything changes again) 000
Fotis M @fotis-m.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Not to mention that if we wait long enough, new oil deposits will build up naturally! 010